Don Corwin and his wife Sherri, owners of Canyon Road Steak House and Beer Garden, recently debuted the best high-gravity beer selection in Clarksville.

Written by

Lester Black
Leaf-Chronicle

Americans, and especially stubborn in this regard are Southern Americans, think that beer should never go beyond 6 percent alcohol.

The South has a penchant for telling brewers how alcoholic their beer can be. Mississippi and Alabama still have an alcohol content ceiling brewers can't cross. And those states that don't limit the gravity of the beer - the brewing term for alcohol strength - tend to set strict rules for how any higher-alcohol beer can be sold.

Tennessee sets that line at 6 percent, which is a completely maddening number for anyone with knowledge about beer's history. By drawing ...